Episode 161: Experimenting with Meditation and Mindfulness - Part 2

<span style='font-weight: 400;'>About a month ago, I challenged myself to a month of practicing meditation. </span> <p><a href='https://live-happier.com/155-experimenting-with-meditation-and-mindfulness-part-1/'> <span style='font-weight: 400;'>As I shared in Part One of this series</span></a><span style='font-weight: 400;'>, I didn’t have a consistent meditation practice prior to this experiment. In fact,</span> <em><span style='font-weight: 400;'>I was pretty resistant to it in the first place</span></em><span style='font-weight: 400;'>. (Be sure to go back and listen to this episode if you haven’t yet!)</span></p> <p><span style='font-weight: 400;'>But I was inspired to give meditation another try because of all the stress and anxiety in the world right now. </span></p> <p><span style='font-weight: 400;'>As I share in the episode, I made it to 30 days of practicing meditation and mindfulness. Technically, it was two weeks of meditation and two weeks of mindfulness—and I get into why I broke it into chunks like this in the episode. </span></p> <p><span style='font-weight: 400;'>Of course, I had to invite my friend and podcast producer, Sean McMullin of</span> <a href='https://www.yellowhouse.media'><span style='font-weight: 400;'>Yellow House Media</span></a><span style='font-weight: 400;'>, back to the show to chat with me about my experience. As you heard in the first part of this series, Sean is someone who not only knows me well—but he also has a meditation practice of his own and I figured he’d be the perfect person to keep me accountable. </span></p> <p><span style='font-weight: 400;'>I learned so much from this experience and I learned even more through my conversation with Sean. </span></p> <p><strong>Listen to the full episode to hear:</strong></p> <ul> <li style='font-weight: 400;'><span style='font-weight: 400;'>What went well and what didn’t go well in my meditation and mindfulness experiment</span></li> <li style='font-weight: 400;'><span style='font-weight: 400;'>The role my BFF and my Monger play